Love and sex addicts sleep with people they shouldn’t sleep with. They sh*t where they eat. They cross the line. They don’t have boundaries. So they may sleep with people and make things really weird for all of you. Like if this friend sleeps with your best male buddy or your sibling.

All of it—her sponsor, the meetings, and the friends she makes in the meetings—helps with the loneliness. And loneliness is often the main reason people become sex and love addicts. But this is a healthy way to fill the loneliness, because these individuals know she has a problem, and don’t enable her.